I have been loving the short videos posted on the TED site lately. Alisa Miller is the CEO of Public Radio International, and her brief discussion of global news coverage in the United States is enlightening. Her simple message, backed by some startling statistics, is eye opening to say the least.
One of the key reasons is that the major media corporations have been saving money by drastically reducing, or electing not to cover much more than the United States, a bit of Europe and the Middle East. The rest of the world, over 2 Billion People, gets less than 1% of the news time we see.
Bonus points to you if you knew what the top news story of last year was.
Hint – it wasn’t the war in Iraq.
